Friday, September 09, 2011

PRI -- "With 20 million vehicles on the streets each day, and with far less pavement than in big cities like New York, Singapore and Tokyo, traffic in Jakarta is terrible (see photo above). To reduce the number of cars on the road, lawmakers have designated several main arteries as what they call “Three in One zones.”

During the morning and afternoon rush, you can’t drive there unless you have at least three people on board. That’s why, near the entrances to the zones, men, women and children line up – raising their index finger – offering to rent themselves as "traffic jockeys" to commuters in a hurry."